Isuzu Yamada Movies

Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba, had changed his name to Isshiki Kurōnosuke...

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

Once a wealthy local land owner, Toranosuke has long since fallen on hard times. Social ostracism befalls those who neglect communal duties and...

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

Yamanaka Sadao's fourth feature film. The Life of Bangaku

Japanese drama film.

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...

Martial Arts Encyclopedia

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Kumazawa mistreats Sokichi...

During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at...

A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka...

The man is chased by losing the beauty and preciousness of love and the foundation of life without overcoming the hardship of life.